It contains photocopies of her HHR so I know the Household No. but the head of household (my great grandfather) is now deceased since it was issued (1985). Not sure if the number is reused and passed down to the next head? I assume my uncle, since my grandfather is also deceased. Unfortunately I don’t know or have any contact from my mother’s side of the family.
The translation includes her Chinese name, English name, and I.D. Card number. I think the document lists her Taiwan Passport number if they start with the letter M. Also contains a photocopy of her notarized and translated Taiwan birth certificate.
Update: Called the HHR office and they looked up my mom’s ID. I’m not sure if I asked the right questions since she isn’t the head of household. I just asked whether or not she had any children registered under her (unless they can’t see that?) and they said no. Or do I need them to look up the Household # and see if anyone with my birth date is on there?
I guess my next step is to contact TECO to see if I already have a NWHOR Passport? Hopefully it includes my English/American name, otherwise I don’t know my Chinese name or characters used unless they can see relatives in the system where I can provide my mom’s to see if I have one.
No harm asking what you can, in the worst case scenario ask if you have enough proof to be issued a first time NWOHR passport based on the documents you have at hand. When doing mine, I did need to have my
birth cert (authenticated by TECO)
parents marriage cert (authenticated by TECO)
at most 3 months old copy of mom’s HHR document
my and both parent’s identity (passport) (authenticated by TECO)
Also showed them a photocopies of my mom’s old Taiwanese passports (as she is no longer a citizen).
When trying to get a 定居證 (Residence Permit) you need to additionally provide a police check (authenticated) and health check (either do in Taiwan or in the US before going to Taiwan).
The only question is how much can be done without at least your mom providing some documents. Will she be willing to at least provide documents if necessary?
Will your relatives be able to get a more recent copy of your mom’s HHR info without her intervention if required?
Unfortunately my mother and I aren’t really on speaking terms. Might have been able to borrow her passport since it’s low effort, but she won’t go out of her way to update any documents. It says the names on my parents passport needs to match the one on my birth certificate, same with their marriage certificate. If they are divorced, is the marriage license even still valid where it can be updated? Also wouldn’t travel to Taiwan to reactivate their HHR if that’s required.
If I were able to get into contact with a relative on my mom’s side, does that mean they will be able to sponsor me somehow instead?
Your mom won’t have to update any documents, as long as you can prove her name changes through her other documents. Probably ask TECO what they are first to only ask your mom when necessary.
You also won’t need your mom to activate her HHR to get on the HHR yourself as you are an adult now, as long as you are able to find a rental/own address in Taiwan to go on the HHR or one of your relatives or friends is willing to let you be added to their address, it’ll be fine. Your mom stays out of the process.
For me, I indicated I’ll be going on a relative’s address for my settlement permit. My mom only provided documents proving her identity and her relationship to me.
A good start. You are not on the HHR document as you were not a citizen when born. Same as my son. ID numbers are not passed on from one person to another. HHR document number may be different now. Not an issue as it’s not important. Now you need to have your parents marriage certificate and your birth certificate to show your parents are your parents.
If you were issued an NWOHR passport it would not have an ID card number… but it would have your name in Chinese. My son’s Chinese surname uses his ROC mothers surname. Quite common when father is a foreigner.
So if I had a NWHOR Passport, it would be difficult and impossible to find since it has no ID number associated?
For now, I’ve sent an e-mailing inquiring about the name discrepancy, since on the NY TECO requirements it mentions that names on their passports must match the ones listed on my birth certificate and marriage licenses.
Your Taiwan passport name must use your Chinese name which would be different from your birth name in the USA. However your birth name could have been added. I wrote about this in a reply earlier.
Yes this is normal anywhere. A friend of mine his wife found out the spelling of her name was different on her birth ceritificate and her mother mispelled her name. She was able to get it changed but it took a long time.